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Spirits Of The Dead
''Spirits of the Dead'' (french: Histoires extraordinaires, lit=Extraordinary Tales, it, Tre passi nel delirio, lit=Three Steps to Delirium), also known as ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'', is a 1968 horror anthology film comprising three segments. The French title is derived from the first collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories translated by French poet Charles Baudelaire; the English titles ''Spirits of the Dead'' and ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' are respectively taken from an 1827 poem by Poe and a 1902 British collection of his stories. American International Pictures distributed this horror anthology film featuring three Poe stories directed by European directors Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini. The cast includes Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, and Terence Stamp. The English-language version features narration by Vincent Price. Plot "Metzengerstein" At the age of 22, Countess Frédérique inherits the Metzengerstei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a ''séance''. Other terms associated with it are apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, wraith, demon, and ghoul. The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the spirits of the dead, is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices—funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic—are specifically designed to rest the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary, human-like essences, though stories of ghostly armies and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice (15 June 1907 – 2 July 1975) was a British actor. He is best remembered for portraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''Doctor'' series. He also co-starred with Gregory Peck in several adventure movies, notably '' The Guns of Navarone''. Born in south-east London, he exaggerated his Scottish roots but was prominent in Scottish public life, helping to launch Scottish Television (STV) and serving as Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Biography The son of Aberdeen-born mining engineer James Norval Justice and Edith (née Burgess), James Robertson Justice was born James Norval Harald Justice in Lee, a suburb of Lewisham in South East London, in 1907. Educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, Justice studied science at University College London, but left after a year and became a geology student at the University of Bonn, where he again left after just a year. He spoke many languages (possibly up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Produzioni Europee Associati
Produzioni Europee Associati (P.E.A) is a production company founded in 1962 by Alberto Grimaldi to produce international co-productions. It released its first feature film '' The Shadow of Zorro'' (''L'ombra di Zorro'') in December that year. Its next production was its first Spaghetti Western '' Texas Ranger'' (''I due violenti'', 1964). After the ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), United Artists financed the rest of the Dollars Trilogy films, ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965) and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966), all directed by Sergio Leone, and it signed a contract to distribute PEA films. In 1976, due to the success of the cinema of the United States The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known as Hollywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of Ame ..., PEA lost vitality and viewers so then it began only to work in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocinor
Cocinor was a French film production and distribution company based in Paris. Established in 1948 its full name is the Compagnie cinématographique du Nord. It was founded by Ignace Morgenstern out of a former distribution company SEDIF he had previously worked for. The company was later sold to Edmond Tenoudji. The company took over Les Films Marceau and distributed some films under the name Cocinor-Marceau. It also acquired the back catalogue of Charles Delac's old company. The company established its reputation in the 1950s by releasing a number of commercial hits including comedies. The company also handled films by French New Wave French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconocla ... directors from the late 1950s onwards.Marie p.60 References Bibliography * Crisp, C.G. ''The Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Mastroianni
Ruggero Mastroianni (7 November 1929 – 9 September 1996) was an Italian film editor. In his obituary of Mastroianni, critic Tony Sloman described him as "arguably, the finest Italian film editor of his generation." Born in Turin, he was the brother of the actor Marcello Mastroianni and nephew of the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni. He had a significant collaboration with director Federico Fellini, whose films he edited for over twenty years; their work includes ''Giulietta degli spiriti'' (1965), '' Amarcord'' (1973), and ''Ginger and Fred'' (1986), the last of which features his brother. He had a similarly notable collaboration with director Luchino Visconti in films like ''Le Notti Bianche'' (1957), '' Morte a Venezia'' (1971), '' Ludwig'' (1972) and '' Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno'' (1974). He also edited the 1974 absurdist western comedy ''Don't Touch The White Woman!''. He won 5 David di Donatello Awards and 1 Nastro d'Argento as Best Editor. With his brother, who act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Baron
Suzanne Baron (June 18, 1927 - December 20, 1995) was a French film editor active from the 1950s through the 1990s. She is known for her collaborations with filmmakers like Louis Malle and Werner Herzog. Selected filmography * ''Das Versprechen'' (1994) * ''Scream of Stone'' (1991) * '' Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe'' (1991) * '' Je suis fou, je suis sot, je suis méchant'' (1990) * '' Crackers'' (1984) * ''Circle of Deceit'' (1981) * '' My Dinner with Andre'' (1981) * ''Atlantic City'' (1980) * ''The Tin Drum'' (1979) * '' Mon coeur est rouge'' (1976) * ''The Acrobat'' (1976) * ''Black Moon'' (1975) * ''Place de la République'' (1974) * ''Humain, trop humain'' (1974) * ''Lacombe, Lucien'' (1974) * ''George Who?'' (1973) * ''A Free Woman'' (1972) * '' Jaune le soleil'' (1971) * ''Murmur of the Heart'' (1971) * ''Calcutta'' (1969) * '' Un soir, un train'' (1968) * ''Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday'' (1967) * ''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short'' (1966) * ''Viva Maria!'' (1965) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Arcalli
Franco "Kim" Arcalli (13 March 1929 – 24 February 1978) was an Italian film editor and screenwriter best known for his work with Bernardo Bertolucci and Michelangelo Antonioni. Life and career Born in Rome by a Venetian family, his last name was Orcalli, but he was wrongly recorded as Arcalli by the officer of the Registry, and the error was never corrected. At fifteen, after the death of his father killed by the fascists, Arcalli moved to Venice where he collaborated with the partisans. Arcalli stepped into the world of cinema in 1954 as an actor, playing a small role in Luchino Visconti's '' Senso''. After starring in two more films, he started his career of screenwriter and editor thanks to his real life friend Tinto Brass, with whom he collaborated on a film installation, '' Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta'', which was screened at the Venice Film Festival in September 1964, and later on '' Chi lavora è perduto'', where in addition to working on the script Arcalli starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Rotunno
Giuseppe Rotunno (19 March 1923 – 7 February 2021) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography Sometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno, he was director of photography on eight films by Federico Fellini. He collaborated with several celebrated Italian directors including; Vittorio De Sica on ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, and Luchino Visconti on ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'' (1963), and ''The Stranger (1967 film), The Stranger'' (1967). Rotunno also served as the director of photography for ''Julia and Julia'' (1987), the first feature shot using High-definition video, high definition television taping technique and then transferred to 35mm movie film, 35 mm film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for ''All That Jazz (film), All That Jazz'' and won seven Silver Ribbon Awards. Rotunno was the first non-American member admitted to the American Society of Cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonino Delli Colli
Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, ''Totò a colori''. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' and ''Once Upon a Time in America''), Roman Polanski ('' Death and the Maiden'' and ''Bitter Moon''), Louis Malle (''Lacombe, Lucien''), Jean-Jacques Annaud (''The Name of the Rose''), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut ''Accattone'' (1961), ''Mamma Roma'' (1962), '' The Gospel According to St. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Renoir
Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913Some sources, such as Ginette Vincendeau's ''Encyclopedia of European Cinema'', London: Cassell/BFI, 1995, p.328 indicate 1914 as his year of birth – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director Jean Renoir. He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as ''On the Waterfront'' (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947), Jean Renoir's '' The River'' (1951), ''Cleopatra'' (1963), Roger Vadim's '' Barbarella'' (1968), '' French Connection II'' (1975), and the James Bond film '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, ''The Times'' of London wrote of ''The River'' that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's '' Godfather'' trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974). During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 — an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Prodromidès
Jean Prodromidès (3 July 1927 – 17 March 2016) was a French composer. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1927 in a music-loving family. His father, of Greek origin, had a pianola by which he became familiar with works of Beethoven and Wagner. He was a pupil of René Leibowitz, who introduced him to dodecaphonic and serial composition. Together with other Leibowitz pupils, Serge Nigg, Antoine Duhamel and André Casanova, he gave the first performance of Leibowitz's ''Explications des Metaphors'', Op. 15, in Paris in 1948. Prodromidès composed for films such as '' Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre'' and ''Danton.'' Prodromidés was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1990 to Henry Sauguet's seat; Prodromidès was also president of the Academy and the Institut de France in 2005. Selected filmography *1956: ''Les biens de ce monde'' *1959: ''Archimède le clochard'' *1960: ''The Baron of the Locks'' (a.k.a. ''Le Baron de l'écluse'') *1960: ''Le Voyage en ballon'' (a.k.a. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
